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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
I agree that hockey is a flow game that requires chemistry, but how is that chemistry built when you have one of your better games and Sutter sticks to his stubborn ways of rolling 4 lines. Keeping your top players on the bench cold doesn't help build chemistry.
Right now, Sutter the coach is coaching like he is Sutter the gm and his overreliance on pluggers is being magnified even more with 5 straight losses defensive losses and unable to finish.
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As I said yesterday you could certainly point to his balanced line approach as an issue.
The Flames are one of the tightest top six vs bottom six min/game splits in hockey.
But they were last year too, and won the division.